Engineering

CNC 5 Axis Operator
3rd January 2025 by

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for a professional engineering organisation who are seeking a 5 Axis CNC Operator to join their busy Darlaston site.

Duties and tasks will include:

Set up and operate 5 Axis Hurco’s and a ROEDER using setting sheets.
Conversational program, set up and operate Hurco 5-AXIS to produce precise components to specification using WinMax software at the console.
Read and interpret engineering drawings.
Check your own work using a range of measuring equipment.
Completing one offs and batch work.
Ensure that production requirements are met in line with the production schedule.

Candidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following:

a min of 5 years’ experience of machining with experience in Aerospace desirable.
Experience of working on Hurco is essential.
An ability to program and work with minimal supervision is a necessity.
Experience of 3,2 & 5 Axis Machining
Experience of working with graphite would be beneficial.

Hours of work are Monday to Thursday, 10 hours between 6am and 6pm, Friday is overtime which will be provided on a weeks notice, and parking is available.

INDLS

Security Systems Engineer
27th December 2024 by

Major Recruitment are seeking a talented Security Systems Engineer/Reactive Engineer on behalf of our successful client, a well-established security solutions provider based in Halesowen. This is an exciting permanent opportunity for an experienced engineer looking to progress in their career, working in a supportive and dynamic team environment. You will be responsible for servicing and maintaining various security systems, with a focus on fault finding and system repairs.

Why Work with Our Client?

£33,000 – £37,000 based on experience
20 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Maximise your earnings with overtime opportunities
Travel time is fully compensated
On-Call Rotation: (1 in 5), offering additional earning potential
Career Progression: Ongoing training with clear career development pathways
Work Away Allowances: Increased hourly rate and additional benefits when working out of town
Great working hours – Monday to Friday
Immediate start for the right person.

Key Responsibilities

Service and maintain a wide range of security systems, including access control, CCTV, and alarms
Diagnose and troubleshoot reactive faults efficiently
Provide clear and concise service reports and documentation
Collaborate effectively within a team, offering support to colleagues as required
Be available for occasional out-of-town assignments

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of experience in the security industry with strong fault-finding skills
Familiarity with a variety of security systems (e.g., Paxton, Hikvision, Avigilon, Salto, Galaxy)
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Full UK driving licence
IPAF and ECS certification (preferred but not essential)

Systems You’ll Work With

Access Control: Salto, Paxton, Came, Stentofon
CCTV: Avigilon, Axis, Synetics, Hikvision, Dahua
Alarms: Galaxy, Texecom, Eaton

All candidates will be subject to the company’s vetting and background check process.

If you’re an experienced security engineer looking to elevate your career with a leading security solutions provider, apply today!

INDMG

Nights Maintenance Engineer (Food production)
27th December 2024 by

Major Talent is recruiting Maintenance Engineers on behalf of our esteemed sauce manufacturing client located in Burton-on-Trent. With a rich history dating back to 1991, our client operates from a cutting-edge manufacturing facility and is a proud member of the world’s leading global food providers.

Primary Purpose of the Role: To ensure machinery, equipment, and services run smoothly on a day-to-day basis in the running of food production on fixed or rotating shifts. To complete reactive, proactive, and preventative maintenance in accordance with production as directed by the Senior Shift Technician.

What’s in it for you?

Permanent position with growth opportunities
10pm to 6am three on – three off.
33 days holiday including bank holidays
£49k salary plus £2 per hour night shift allowance – £53,160
5% pension contribution
Employee benefits rewards scheme

Key Areas of Responsibility and Standards of Performance:

Service and repair equipment, mechanical and electrical, fitting spares, and conducting quality inspections across the facility, planned preventative maintenance.
Check and calibrate instruments to ensure accuracy.
Respond immediately to machine/equipment breakdowns.
Implement and track improvement projects in terms of delivery, timeliness, and cost.
Ensure timely repair of simple breakdowns, assist with root cause identification, and implement solutions to prevent repeated failures.
Maintain health, safety, quality, and environmental good engineering practice standards.
Comply with all factory standards and procedures.
Accurately complete all engineering-related paperwork and documentation for all projects and activities.
Encourage and help drive the site’s food safety culture, to help prevent deviations in the process that impact the safety, quality, and legality of our products.
Understand and adhere to Company policies and procedures relevant to both the site and the working environment.
Any other duties as deemed reasonable by your line manager or senior management to assist with the operation of the business.

Person specification:

Essential Skills:

City & Guilds 2357 Level 3 NVQ electro technical technology (Level 2 minimum).
17th/18th Edition electrical qualification BS7671.
Mechanical experience. NVQ Level 2/3 multi-skilled maintenance.
Appropriate Health, Safety & Environmental training and experience.
Computer literate in Microsoft Excel.
Experience of CMMs. Shire.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills – GCSE grade C or above in English Language.
Numerate – GCSE grade C or above in Mathematics.
Understanding of engineering drawings and principles.
Excellent time management skills.
Experience of working in a food-manufacturing environment.
Capable of working under pressure and being accountable for actions taken.
Able to work as part of a multi-skilled team and promote team working at all times.
Able to prioritise, adaptable to change, and able to implement new changes in a constructive manner consistent with a fast-paced environment.
Basic diagnostic skills.
Flexibility to cover all shifts particularly in times of holidays and sickness.
Minimum food hygiene level 2.

If you are interested in this CV, please apply by uploading your updated CV with relevant experience. If you have been successful, you will hear back within 2 days.

INDMG

Mechanical Fitter
23rd December 2024 by

Mechanical Fitter

The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Fitter with HGV Trailer/Plant knowledge and experience to join our clients friendly team based at their Yorkshire Depot in Hull. Starting as soon as possible, this is a full-time, permanent role with 40 hours per week basic contract position, working Monday to Friday and reporting to the Workshop/Transport Manager. There are also plenty of opportunities for regular overtime including weekends. This is a vast and varied role. The role of Plant/Hydraulics Fitter is essential to our business and a key part of the Industrial Services team. The job involves general workshop duties of heavy plant and HGV vehicles.

About You

The ideal candidate will have experience in maintenance of LGV Trailer, site plant equipment, vehicle plant and associated accessories . Able to work as part of a team. A good communicator with a professional attitude when dealing with members of staff, clients, customers and suppliers. Good knowledge of maintenance systems is essential, as is the ability to organise and plan in a logical manner. A positive and proactive approach to safety is a given.

Due to the nature of our business, we have an extremely high focus on health, safety and the environment and you must be the sort of person who will embrace this culture. We are looking for a team player who likes a challenge, is hard-working and not afraid of physical work.

Benefits:

Starting rate £14.56 per hour – time and half (£21.84 p/h) paid after eight hours and Saturdays and double time (£29.12 per hour) for Sundays/Bank holidays. Our fitters can earn average annual salary between £30,284 – £38,000 + per annum.

Free life insurance and automatic enrolment into the company pension scheme

25 days holiday per year plus 8 paid bank holidays

Bike to work scheme

Enhanced paternity pay

Private healthcare

Savings scheme

Pension salary sacrifice scheme

Paid volunteer day

6 Monthly Front Line Operative incentive scheme.

Employee Assistance Programme offering free legal, financial and mental health advice

This is an ideal opportunity to gain stable and secure employment with an established and growing company.

Major Recruitment act as an Employment Agency for permanent roles and Employment Business for temporary opportunities

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £30,284.00-£38,000.00 per year

mechanical Site fitter/Welder
23rd December 2024 by

Major Recruitment are currently seeking experienced site fitter/welder/mechanical engineer for our prestigious client based in Batley, West Yorkshire.

Due to continued growth our client is now seeking to strengteh their engineering team with addition of experienced fitter/welde/mechanical engineer.

Will work as part of our site team welding/fabricating (primarily MIG) the machinery.
The role will involve:
Some repairing and patching pipework
Fabricating chutes
Hard faced welding on rota’s
Construction of barriers
Needs to have the ability to work as part of a team.
Needs to be Health & Safety conscious, ensuring that the procedures are followed to the highest standard.
It will include mechanical work and they must have formal qualifications.
Clean licence essential.

Working Mopnday to Friday with some potential site working

Excellent benefits package

INDAC

Pipefitter/Welder
23rd December 2024 by

Major Recruitment are currently seeking a number of Pipefitter/Welders for our client based in the Elland area of West Yorkshire.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a well established and fast growing engineering company who are looking to strengthen their engineering team.

Purpose of the Role

The purpose of the role is to manufacture, weld, assemble and install piping structures used in conveying and handling the likes of food stuffs, powders, hot liquids and steam.

The Pipefitter welder will take direction and instruction from the assigned Project/Contracts engineer and assume responsibility for facilitating the day to day requirements of specific projects whilst on clients sites and in the workshop ensuring that you are working safely and efficiently whilst satisfying the needs of the business and the customer.

In addition to these departmental responsibilities this job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and may be reviewed in the future depending upon operational requirements and staffing levels.

Key Responsibilities

Take instruction and guidance from the Contracts/Project engineer/ Workshop Manager and take the day to day responsibility and organisation of themselves whilst on specific projects on client’s sites and in the workshop.
Ensure appropriate targets and time scales are achieved in line with project engineering and customer requirements
Working in collaboration with the Contracts/Project engineer/ Workshop Manager and other team members to facilitate the delivery of technically challenging projects, on schedule and to the desired quality and in accordance with the site constraints.
Assisting with the installation activities across various disciplines and within the assigned team.
Working to maximise manufacturing output, maintain efficiencies and reduce costs, in accordance with project engineering schedules.
Working to information provided regarding internal manufacturing requirements and reporting back any shortages to the Contracts/Project engineer/ Workshop Manager in a timely fashion to allow efficiencies of design, purchase, and manufacture.
Work and adhere to risk assessments and method statements as to meet all legislative, business and customers’ requirements.
Interpret and adhere to customers engineering and hygiene standards and be adaptable to apply these standards to customer specific requirements.
Ensure any on site project changes are captured and communicated back to the Contracts/Project engineer
Ensure schedules are understood and workload is managed to meet the business priorities and objectives.
Courteous and informative interaction with customers as and when required and provide technical support during project deliveries and installations

Key Skills & Experience

Be competent (and confident) in the technical aspects of process engineering pipework manufacture, assembly, and installation ideally with a knowledge of special purpose machinery (gained within a similar industry or environment).
Experienced in hygienic stainless-steel purge TIG welding of dairy, sched tube and ancillary items such as brackets and supports.
An understanding of temperature-controlled pipe work systems.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings such as P&IDs, layouts, and spool drawings.
Excellent team working and organisational skills, being able to prioritise requirements to meet demands from project engineering.
Possess a good understanding of the principles of mechanical engineering and hygienic practice within the food manufacturing environment.
Experience in delivering solutions to technical issues.
Sound interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to communicate at all levels both internally and externally with customers, suppliers and staff.
Experience of technical projects including working to tight timescales and meeting project milestones throughout the project life cycle.
Excellent time management and organisational skills, being able to prioritise requirements to meet differing demands.
The desire to deliver a high level of quality and customer service.
A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.
Strong problem-solving skills and with the ability to delegate when necessary

Qualifications

5 plus years’ experience in a relevant production or engineering discipline.
Apprentice trained in a relevant mechanical engineering field.
Full and current British driving licence

The role is based at our client in Elland however there maybe occasion where off site work may need to be carried out and you maybe required to work away although this is very rare.

Monday to Thursday 7.30am to 4pm, Friday 7.30am to 3.30pm

INDAC

Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer
20th December 2024 by

Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer
Bradford
Salary: From £35,000 per year + 23 days holiday + 8 bank holidays Hours: Monday to Friday (Early & Late Shifts: 05:45 – 14:15 / 13:45 – 22:15)

We are working with a leading UK food industry supplier who specialise in delivering high-quality packaging solutions through operational excellence and technical expertise.

We are looking for….

Maintenance Mastermind: Keep machines running smoothly and downtime minimal. Production Perfectionist: Set up new production lines with precision and flair. Fault-Finding Wizard: Troubleshoot and repair all types of machinery like a pro. Improvement Innovator: Spot chances to enhance processes and make things even better. Team Player Extraordinaire: Work closely with production teams to ensure seamless operations.

Your Superpowers:

Must-Haves: Ideally Level 3 Apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering (or similar). Experience in process, production, or manufacturing environments. Knowledge of 3-phase motors, drives, and inverters. Skilled at reading engineering drawings and solving technical puzzles.

Bonus Points: Experience with food & confectionery packing machines. Familiarity with 3D design software and 3D printing. PLC programming and fault-finding skills.

What’s in it for you?
Work with cutting-edge machinery and exciting projects. Be part of a dynamic, supportive, and forward-thinking team. Unlock endless opportunities for growth and development.

Ready to Engineer Your Future?
Apply now and become the hero behind the machines via the online instructions.

No CV no problem, contact Helen who can help.

HMIND

Proposals & Tendering Engineer
20th December 2024 by

A Proposals Engineer is sought by a growing Engineering company in the Gateshead area

JOB DESCRIPTION

Working within a successful Sales & Commercial team as a Proposals Engineer you will support the proposals process by logging enquiries, collating technical and commercial information, liaising with clients and suppliers and preparing / submitting proposal documentation to clients. You will also monitor submitting enquiries and establishing an awareness of the current market situation.

KEY SKILLS

The successful Proposals Engineer will have previous experience working within a proposals engineer role within an engineering company and have a basic understanding of commercial contracts. You will need experience of compiling complex commercial contracts and complex engineering projects. A HNC / Degree in engineering or business related discipline (or equivalent experience) and experience within an Electrical Engineering environment is also essential. Good communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

APPLY NOW

This is an exciting role within a growing company and a friendly and personable team environment.

If you would like to learn more please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now to send your CV

Proposals & Tendering Engineer
19th December 2024 by